Sushi Making with Walter Rhee

Walter Rhee returned to Hawaii last week, but the aroma of his delicious creations lives on. Walter actually cooked up a huge lunch for the staff before leaving, complete with a vegetarian curry, black bean noodles with fried pork, a seafood salad, and plenty of pickled veggies and kim chee.

I sat in on Walter’s Pan-Asian Cuisine when he was here and recorded some clips of him preparing sushi. The seafood of choice? Fresh lobster. Mm. Watch it below.

You can also watch it on the vimeo site to view it in high definition.

I had a nibble of some of the lobster claw meat. It was pretty slimy. Walter returns to CCAE for Summer Term.

Eliza McCormick – Don’t Live to Old Age

CCAE will be hosting a memorial service for Eliza McCormick Feld, a beloved writing instructor who passed peacefully from cancer from last year.  The Globe wrote an obit for Mrs. Feld last year, which you can still read online.

While digging around the net for a picture of Mrs. Feld, I found a podcast on TruMix.com that featured an interview with her from her Cambridge home.  She chats briefly about her writing career, old age, and death.

Listen here >>

Re-juggling

There was a clown that used to work here. A ‘proper’ one, as the brits say, as opposed to your regular office employee with a preference for practical jokes.

His name was Peter, and he was, as I remember, a great clown. It’s been a few years since he’s come through the Center, but in my early days he performed at some of our more family-style events. He’d come in full clown attire, making balloon animals and performing to the delight of young children and their parents.

He taught a juggling class before having a child of his own, and has since ceased teaching indefinitely.

We had an office re-jiggering recently and a box of old, unused juggling balls surfaced out of the mild chaos. They’re tangerine sized cubes filled with shredded nut shells, arranged in packs of three.

Now they’re propped on a box near the upstairs office entrance, ready to greet faculty members and visitors as they come in.

I grabbed a pack and tried my hand at juggling, with moderate success. I wonder if the coordination demands might keep ones mind sharp as the day goes along. Wouldn’t that be great, if instead of coffee in the morning, people juggled down the street?